I read the Solo Leveling manhwa years before Crunchyroll picked it up. Here’s how A-1 Pictures’ anime adaptation actually stacks up, episode by episode.
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The Church on Ruby Road launches Ncuti Gatwa with a goblin musical number and a plot built on coincidence. He’s excellent. The episode is thin.
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The Giggle gives Neil Patrick Harris the best villain the show has had in years, then ends the Doctor’s story with a fudge nobody asked for.
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Wild Blue Yonder strands the Doctor and Donna on an empty ship at the edge of the universe with something wearing their faces. Genuinely frightening.
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The Star Beast reunites Tennant and Tate for the 60th anniversary, and they’re magnificent. The resolution to Donna’s metacrisis is the weak link.
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A review of The Marvels, where Iman Vellani is the best thing on screen, Carol still underwhelms, and a post-credits cameo changes what the MCU can be.
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A review of Loki season 2, where the god of mischief takes the threads of every timeline in his hands, and Victor Timely fails to sell Kang as a saga …
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A review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, where Rocket’s origin turns out to be the whole trilogy’s spine and the High Evolutionary earns his place as a villain.
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A review of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, where the Council of Kangs steals the film and the villain meant to carry the next decade doesn’t convince.
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Episode 4 of the HBO show “The Last of Us” was an exciting installment in the series. Joel and Ellie’s relationship continued to grow as they took an unplanned detour …
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I hope you’ve seen Aliens … it’s one of the classic military sci-fi films out there, and it completely turns the horror movie-themed Alien onto its head. With tons of …
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The third episode of HBO’s The Last of Us, titled “Long Long Time,” is an emotional rollercoaster that takes us away from our zombie apocalypse storyline to a different place …
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Prior to the episode truly kicking off, we get another flashback, this time to Indonesia. Here we find a professor specializing in fungus’ getting called in by the army. They …
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While today was the worldwide premier of The Last of Us on HBO, it’s probably a good idea to give everyone a bit of a clue about what all the …
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I know I’m very late to the party with this review of Ghostbusters Afterlife, but after watching it recently, I really thought it deserved mention on the site. Afterlife helps …
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A review of Wakanda Forever, where not recasting T’Challa was the right call, Namor is a genuinely good villain, and the ending lets him off far too easily.
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In 1963, a new show debuted on the BBC that would change the face of television. Doctor Who follows the adventures of a Time Lord – a humanoid alien who …
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Westworld tells the story of what could be, or perhaps what will be in the not-too-distant future. While at parts dystopian, it is also a story of hope.
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The Wheel of Time is a series written by Robert Jordan while The Lord of the Rings is written by JRR Tolkien. Let’s see how Amazon does converting both to …
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A Canticle for Leibowitz is a science fiction novel by Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1960. The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic world, centuries after a nuclear …
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A review of Thor: Love and Thunder, where Gorr deserved a better film, Zeus is a punchline, and the ending hands out godhood like party favours.
